Authorship and International Diversity

All contributing authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Sufficient participation in the work is of utmost importance:

Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or analysis and interpretation of data. All authors should be involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, must have read and approved the final version of the manuscript and approve of its submission to this journal.

CRITERIA FOR AUTHORSHIP

Everyone who has made substantial intellectual contributions to the study on which the article is based (for example, to the research question, design, analysis, interpretation, and written description) should be an author. Only an individual who has made substantial intellectual contributions should be an author. Performing technical services, translating text, supplying materials and providing funding was done are not, in themselves, sufficient for authorship, although these contributions may be acknowledged in the manuscript. One author (a “guarantor”) should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole. Often this is the corresponding author, the one who sends in the manuscript and receives reviews, but other authors can have this role. All authors should approve the final version of the manuscript.  It is preferable that all authors be familiar with all aspects of the work.

NUMBER OF AUTHORS

Editors should not arbitrarily limit the number of authors. If editors believe the number of authors is unusually large, relative to the scope and complexity of the work, they can ask for a detailed description of each author’s contributions to the work. If some do not meet criteria for authorship, editors can require that their names be removed as a condition of publication.

ORDER OF AUTHORSHIP

The authors themselves should decide the order in which authors are listed in an article. No one else knows as well as they do their respective contributions and the agreements they have made among themselves.

CHANGES TO AUTHORSHIP

For all submission to IMJPL, authorship change request should be submitted to Editorial Office of IMJPL through Corresponding author.  Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Editor from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and b) signed IMJPL Change of Authorship Form <https://p-l.journals.miu.ac.ir/page_184.html > by all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement.  The corresponding author should certify that all authors meet the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) authorship standards and that all authors consent to the change. All authors will be asked to sign an authorship statement after the manuscript has been accepted. By signing the change of authorship form, any authors who have been added, removed, or reordered indicate that they agree to the changes.  Until the editorial office gets the completed form, the relevant submission will be kept on hold for further processing.  No authorship change is allowed after publication of manuscript. 

COPYRIGHT

The IMJPL is made available to the public under the open access policy. The accepted submissions are free to read, reuse, download, copy, distribute, and share as long as the author(s) of the manuscript are credited.  IMJPL will ask all authors of the article to sign a Copyright Agreement Form. The accepted manuscript is moved into production after the copyright transfer form from the relevant author of the manuscript is received. Because the author(s) publish their manuscript as open access, the author(s) retain(s) certain rights such as patents, trademarks, and designs. The conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License are incorporated into the author(s) contract, dictating what others can do with the author(s) manuscript after it is published. Furthermore, after being properly attributed, the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License allows for unrestricted use, distribution, modification, and reproduction in any medium.

REVERSION OF AUTHOR RIGHTS

Author(s) are advised to consider how the author(s) will utilize their work in the future and to keep certain rights (apart from rights towards patent, trademark and design) to achieve their academic and professional objectives. Right of reversion Articles may be accepted for publication but then rejected during the publishing process, even after being publicly posted in "Articles in Press" form, in which case all rights revert to the author. As an author(s), author or authors’ employer or institution retains certain rights by signing the author rights form: https://p-l.journals.miu.ac.ir/page_184.html

AUTHOR AGREEMENT

IMJPL Publisher provides access to archived material through IMJPL archives.  Manuscripts are the parts of an open archive, which are made freely available from IMJPL website.  All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted reuse is defined by Creative Commons user license called "Creative Common Attribution".  The IMJPL and the end users have non-exclusive rights under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). Any supporting information along with the contribution of authors in all subsequent version for publication in IMJPL, the IMJPL is granted a perpetual, non-exclusive license to publish, transfer, distribute as a whole or part of the information throughout the world in all languages. The corresponding author authorized the co-authors to enter into Copyright Agreement Form. The corresponding author and co-authors guarantees that the submitted manuscript is original, has not been submitted to any other journals, has not been published previously, and does not infringe on other person’ rights (including without limitation copyrights, patent rights and the trademark right).  All authors further guarantees that the contribution does not contain any libelous statement, facts, instructions that can cause damage and injury to third parties and disclosure of any secret or confidential information.

USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

The IMJPL Journal provides access to archived material through IMJPL archives. All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted reuse is defined by Creative Commons user license called "Creative Common Attribution" (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Authors are requested to evident whether impending conflicts do or do not exist by signing conflict of interest disclosure form: <https://p-l.journals.miu.ac.ir/page_184.html>

Responsibilities on Conflicts of Interest

All manuscripts for articles, original research reports, editorials, comments, reviews, book reviews, and letters that are submitted to IMJPL must be accompanied by a conflict of interest disclosure statement or a declaration by the authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.

All articles that are published in IMJPL must be accompanied by this conflict of interest disclosure tatement or a statement that the authors have replied that they have no conflicts of interest to declare.

To facilitate this policy, all authors must privately disclose ‘ALL their potential conflicts of interest’ to the ditors of IMJPL at the time of submission. These include all financial and non-financial interests and relationships (see definitions provided a little later in the text), direct employment with a private sector entity (whether full or part-time), and service on private sector and non-profit Boards and advisory panels, whether paid or unpaid.

Authors should also disclose any conflict of interest that may have influenced either the conduct or the presentation of the research to the editors, including but not limited to close relationships with those who might be helped or hurt by the publication, academic terests and rivalries, and any personal, religious or political convictions relevant to the topic at hand.

In the article, the authors must include a draft statement that iscloses all relevant conflicts of interest and affiliations. The relevance of financial conflicts of interest with private firms is defined as a relationship of any value with a firm that has a stake in the subject of the manuscript or its competitors.

Relevance for patents is defined as any invention or pending invention connected in any way to the subject. As relevance is often in the eye of the beholder, one must err on the side of full disclosure when drafting the disclosure statement. Editors will check a draft against the private financial disclosure statement and initiate discussions toward possible adjustments, if necessary.

What to Report

Any financial relationship from the past years (dating from the month of submission) of any size, should be disclosed. These potential conflicts of interest include:

• Direct employment, either full-time or part-time
• Grants and research funding (but not grants to your institution or others whitin your institution, on which you have not worked). These include substantial grants from trade associations and non-profit (50% or more) or funded by private sector firms.
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• Travel grants, speaking fees, writing fees, and other honoraria.
• Patents granted and pending applications, irrespective of whether they are generating royalties or not.
• Stock ownership and investment in the related ‘sector’ funds or stock options, including those of immediate family members, but excluding diversified mutual funds and investment trusts Membership of private sector, scientific or other advisory Boards, whether paid or unpaid.

In addition, any current negotiations regarding future employment or current job offers, either full- or part-time, must be disclosed.

In disclosing these financial arrangements to the editors, the authors can include dollar amounts, albeit they will not be printed in IMJPL. Editors may choose to exclude this information from the publication, but in no case should an editor or author consider an arrangement irrelevant based on its size alone.

Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest

Authors may have strong views about the article being submitted for publication. The authors must consider disclosing these views and the editors may choose to print any affiliations or expressions from these views that may be relevant. These may be personal, political or intellectual, and may include any expression of strongly held views relevant to the subject of submission.

Such disclosures may be original or they may be references to opinions previously expressed in books or monographs, opposite editorials (op-eds) or public comments, or to some prior sworn testimony or lobbying of legislators or legislative bodies.

Disclosable non-financial conflicts of interest will also include membership or affiliation to nongovernmental organizations that have an interest in the submission.

BUDGET
The budget of IMJPL is supplied by the Publisher.